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.... “Parliament will assess the appropriate level of compensation at the point at which contracts are brought back in-house,” he said. John Appleby, chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, a health charity, told the BBC’s World At One that the total cost of buying out all the PFI contracts in the NHS alone could be well over £50bn. ...
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....While the Bank is not concerned that consumer debt will be a risk to economic growth as it is only 11% of household debt, it is a risk to lenders’ ability to withstand losses in a downturn as these loans are less likely to be repaid when consumers lose their jobs or face higher interest rates. But the charity StepChange said more needed to be done to help “millions of households trapped in spiralling persistent debt”. ...
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.... Debt is an exhausting secret to keep, but telling a stranger about a problem you can hardly bear to face yourself takes courage. “It can take people a few times to actually speak to someone,” says Becky Mitchell, a team leader for the helpline run by debt charity StepChange. ...
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....Combining forces with like-minded companies and individuals has enabled us to thrive where, otherwise, we might flounder. We’ve worked with parenting charity NCT, baby-swimming lesson company Water Babies, post-natal exercise business Buggyfit, and music classes organiser Hartbeeps. ...
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.... Government should take this as a warning that the current visa system is not fit for purpose. The Home Office urgently needs to reform our immigration system to ensure that UK employers across the charity, state, and private sectors are able to recruit the foreign staff they need to keep our economy and services functioning after Brexit. ...
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....Citizens Advice said that the failure to cope with payday loans and other forms of high cost credit was one of the main reasons for the influx of distressed young people seeking advice. The charity, which helped 350,000 people last year, said there was 34% rise in the number of under-25s seeking help with high cost credit in the last two years. ...
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. When the Birmingham substance misuse service was handed from the local NHS trust to a charity, Carol Rice lost her job amid cost-cutting, just as she was facing deeper debt problems. ...
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....Once, she sent well-known sausage brand a card with a drawing of a farm her children had made. In response, the company sent her a hamper with £200-worth of sausages inside it (she gave most of it away to charity). ...
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....Almost two million pensioners last year boosted their income with Pension Credit, claiming £6billion from the Government. Separately, a charity has warned many older people who deferred their state pension are failing to claim Winter Fuel Payments. ...
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....Almost two million pensioners last year boosted their income with Pension Credit, claiming £6billion from the Government. Separately, a charity has warned many older people who deferred their state pension are failing to claim Winter Fuel Payments. ...

.... “Parliament will assess the appropriate level of compensation at the point at which contracts are brought back in-house,” he said. John Appleby, chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, a health charity, told the BBC’s World At One that the total cost of buying out all the PFI contracts in the NHS alone could be well over £50bn. ...

....While the Bank is not concerned that consumer debt will be a risk to economic growth as it is only 11% of household debt, it is a risk to lenders’ ability to withstand losses in a downturn as these loans are less likely to be repaid when consumers lose their jobs or face higher interest rates. But the charity StepChange said more needed to be done to help “millions of households trapped in spiralling persistent debt”. ...

....Once, she sent well-known sausage brand a card with a drawing of a farm her children had made. In response, the company sent her a hamper with £200-worth of sausages inside it (she gave most of it away to charity). ...

.... Government should take this as a warning that the current visa system is not fit for purpose. The Home Office urgently needs to reform our immigration system to ensure that UK employers across the charity, state, and private sectors are able to recruit the foreign staff they need to keep our economy and services functioning after Brexit. ...

....Combining forces with like-minded companies and individuals has enabled us to thrive where, otherwise, we might flounder. We’ve worked with parenting charity NCT, baby-swimming lesson company Water Babies, post-natal exercise business Buggyfit, and music classes organiser Hartbeeps. ...

.... Debt is an exhausting secret to keep, but telling a stranger about a problem you can hardly bear to face yourself takes courage. “It can take people a few times to actually speak to someone,” says Becky Mitchell, a team leader for the helpline run by debt charity StepChange. ...

....Citizens Advice said that the failure to cope with payday loans and other forms of high cost credit was one of the main reasons for the influx of distressed young people seeking advice. The charity, which helped 350,000 people last year, said there was 34% rise in the number of under-25s seeking help with high cost credit in the last two years. ...

....The results follow a series of reports by debt charities showing a rise in the number of people seeking help with personal debts and arrears on household bills. The debt charity StepChange said it was concerned about a steep increase in the number of under-40s and renters who were struggling to make ends meet, adding to the trend for low-income families to rely on credit to buy essential items. ...

....3 million people in the UK with problem debts. The debt charity StepChange said the percentage of its clients falling behind on payments went over 40% in the first half of 2017, while the average debt of the people it helps has also risen, from £14,251 in 2016 to £14,367 in the first half of the year. ...

....3 million people in the UK with problem debts. The debt charity StepChange, which has also released fresh data, said the percentage of its clients falling behind on payments went over 40% in the first half of 2017, while the average debt of the people it helps has also risen, from £14,251 in 2016 to £14,367 in the first half of the year. ...

.... They never asked for any income to support it,” she said. Credit card lenders appear to be targeting people struggling with unaffordable levels of debt, according to research from the charity Citizens Advice, who helped Tracy to manage her problems. ...

....Polling by YouGov, however, believed to be the first survey of public attitudes towards the plants, found that 62% of people would be unhappy living within five miles of one. The poll, commissioned by the climate change charity 10:10, found that only 24% would be unhappy living near an onshore windfarm, which the Conservative party has stymied with tougher planning rules. ...

....”. He says one recent shoot arranged by the agency was at a house with a wishing well in the garden, while another for a charity featured a “house that looked like it could belong to elderly people”. ...

....Bowen’s case has received huge media attention as well as triggering hundreds of further complaints from motorists who claim they have been badly treated by ParkingEye and other private parking companies. They include a woman working for an animal rescue charity who parked in a coastal pay and display car park in emergency tidal conditions while trying to rescue a seal from the sea. ...

.... Prince Philip was to get the second and Theresa May the third. Collectors are on the hunt for very low serial numbers after the lowest-number £5 note issued to the public, AA01000017, sold for £4,105 at a charity auction last year. ...

.... Only a handful of ATMs around the UK are expected to be dispensing them on Thursday. Collectors are on the hunt for very low serial numbers – those beginning AA01 – after the lowest number £5 note issued to the public, AA01000017, sold for £4,105 at a charity auction last year. ...

.... The general public must wait a little longer while Britain’s 48,000 cash machines are loaded with the notes, with only a handful of ATMs around the UK expected to be dispensing them on Thursday. Collectors are on the hunt for very low serial numbers – those beginning AA01 – after the lowest number £5 note issued to the public, AA01000017, sold for £4,105 at a charity auction last year. ...

.... According to the Airport Operators Association, all UK airports allow transgender passengers to be searched in private by staff that correspond with the gender they identify with, and evidence of gender is only rarely required. However, border control, where identities are verified, is where most problems arise for those whose appearance seems at odds with their passport face, according to the LGBT charity Stonewall. ...

....The City of London Corporation declined to say whether it had specifically responded to the 2014 report, which warned that its spending on various services was unbalanced and that more focus was needed on prevention work with healthy or low-risk users. But a spokesperson did say it continued to maintain spending levels on drug treatment and prevention, with money going to WDP Square Mile Health – a drug and alcohol charity with a clinic in the City, which offers outreach work with companies. ...

.... The child benefit tax charge is based on your adjusted net income. This is your total taxable income (ie, basic salary plus any benefits from your job such as a company car or private medical insurance, plus share dividend or rental income etc), minus things such as pension contributions and gift aided donations to charity. ...

.... Campaigners say they fear this may still let the tobacco industry have control over any track and trace system. Deborah Arnott, chief executive of health charity Ash, said, “We’re delighted that the EU is consulting on the regulations needed to put in place a European-wide tracking and tracing system for tobacco products, which is vital to prevent Big Tobacco from facilitating smuggling of its products. ...

.... If all the possible improvements outlined in the report were made, bills could drop to £560 a year. Fabrice Leveque, an energy specialist at the environmental charity WWF, said: “This is yet more evidence that a zero-carbon future is in our grasp. ...

....”. The commission’s membership is drawn from a wide group of business leaders and civil society groups including: Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of the consultancy McKinsey and Company; Helena Morrissey, Legal & General’s head of personal investment; Sir Charlie Mayfield, the chairman of the John Lewis Partnership; Sara Bryson, a community organiser in Tyne and Wear for the charity Citizens UK; and Sally Tallant, the director of the Liverpool Biennial contemporary art festival. ...

....”. Evidence presented to the Church of England’s General Synod earlier this year suggested that two thirds of the calls to GamCare, the country’s main problem gambling charity, were from bookmaker customers, with over half citing FOBTs as the root of their problem. ...

....While Jackson was studying full-time for a degree in dance and performing arts at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, she worked 10-20 hours a week running Living the Dream, a dance company she’d set up at the age of 16. She hired fellow students from her course to perform at corporate and charity dance events and would teach young people to put on performing arts shows in the school holidays, offering disadvantaged children free places by charging wealthier families more. ...

....”. It also emerged on Thursday that Boots had issued the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), a charity that advises women on their reproductive health, with two legal threats over its campaign for the firm to reduce its prices for the pills. ...

....One customer was allowed to make 850,000 bets worth £1. 3m in one year, using money stolen from their employer, prompting calls from the UK’s leading gambling charity and the Labour party for swifter action to address problem gambling. ...

....People with online gambling problems spend an average of £98 a day, place up to 90 bets and are more likely to gamble in the middle of the night, according to a new report. That compares with just £14 among those not considered to be at risk, who typically place between two and seven punts on a day when they bet, the charity Gamble Aware said. ...

....Research from Citizens Advice finds almost one in five people struggling with debts have had their credit card limit raised without them requesting it. The charity has demanded the Financial Conduct Authority bans the practice, amid growing concerns over a boom in lending. ...

.... While counselling organisations such as GamCare and YGAM do great work, specialist treatment in the UK is woefully thin on the ground. There is just one gambling addiction clinic in the UK, in London and funded by the GambleAware charity. ...

....”. The UK’s leading gambling charity GambleAware, which funds the UK’s only dedicated gambling addiction clinic in London, repeated calls for the industry to increase its funding for addiction treatment. ...

.... All the lights at home stay off and are only turned on when it’s absolutely necessary. The heating no longer goes on and we purchased secondhand blankets from the charity shop to see us through the winter. ...

....“I was not expecting Brexit, to be honest, and it has left me wondering: is the UK and London a good place to be?” said Dogan Biyikli. With a professional background in overseas disaster management, he is part of team that is in the early stages of developing a translation app tailored to charity workers. ...

.... The level of assessed risk before we help a child in need has been raised. The charity Action for Children recently published a report that showed tens of thousands of children at risk of harm across the UK are not being helped by local authorities. ...

.... Recent figures from the Bank of England have shown it grew by 10% in the year to June to £210bn, the highest figure since December 2008. “There is a bunch of people hanging on by their fingernails and a little shock to their finances pushes them over the edge,” said Peter Tutton, of debt charity StepChange. ...

....The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 local authorities in England and Wales, is calling for councils to have more powers and funding, in order to resume their historical role as significant builders of affordable homes. The homelessness charity Shelter also wants to see a shake-up. ...

.... Today, instead of the usual practice, the singers are performing to potential employers – and then singing with them. The pitch by the charity Beating Time that set up this choir, and others at separate prisons, is simple: businesses grappling with skills shortages and seeking to deliver on their promises to become more socially engaged, should look no further than prison choirs for people to employ and train up. ...

.... Tesco’s announcement follows a similar move by Sainsbury’s. Money raised from sales of the more expensive bags for life goes towards community projects – similar to other supermarkets’ charity donations after the introduction of plastic bag charging. ...

....Your phone carries your life the way the Ood carry their brains in their hands, so it might as well be your wallet too. You can’t even give it away: try giving cash to charity collectors on the street. ...

.... “I rejected an enhanced redundancy package designed to force me to sign a global confidentially agreement and just took statutory redundancy instead,” he said. Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of the campaigning charity Ash, said: “At the time the allegations of fraud in Africa were first made against BAT the company accused the whistle blower of having a vendetta against the company and peddling falsehoods. ...

.... It is in stark contrast to the miserable and myopic decision of the court of appeal, which resorted to the logic of the poor law in holding that the reason for the dramatic drop in employment tribunal applications was because claimants, being the undeserving poor, chose to spend their money on non-essential items, such as clothes and alcohol. I spent over a decade as a volunteer lawyer for a charity representing claimants at employment tribunals. ...

.... The “admin fees” charged by lettings agents were getting so out of hand that, at the end of last year, the government announced the decision to ban them. A report from the charity Shelter found that nearly one in four people in England and Wales feel that they have been charged unfair fees by a letting agent. ...

.... But, it turns out, such self-interest doesn’t make us nearly as happy as giving to others. Studies in which people have been given envelopes of money to spend show that those who spent a proportion of it on a gift, or gave some to charity, felt happier than those who spent it on a present for themselves or a bill they needed to pay. ...

.... Not that the state is any more thorough: keyworker housing schemes rarely include street cleaners or care workers employed by private agencies – the people doing the work of the public sector, but not actually employed by it. Other kinds of social value are just as hard to measure: aren’t local news reporters or charity campaigners also useful?. ...

.... Instead, he has used his money to purchase the largest luxury home in Washington DC (converting the 27,000 sq ft Textile Museum into a single-family residence). Unlike his brother, Mark Bezos, a volunteer firefighter who runs an anti-poverty organization called Robin Hood, Jeff has confined himself to a few highly idiosyncratic forms of charity, such as handing out free bananas on the streets of Seattle. ...

.... Every year Bezos reprints the letter he sent to shareholders that year, insisting it is only Day 1 for the company and pledging to focus on the long-term and be the market leader. He has not joined the club of billionaires who pledge to hand over the majority of fortunes to charity – started by Gates and his wife, along with Buffett – but recently tweeted to ask for philanthropic ideas to help in the short term, which he said was in contrast to his long-term approach to running the business. ...

....Since then, the acute budgetary pressures placed on local authorities by successive governments have encouraged municipal planners to cede control of almost all new open spaces in the city to developers; some academics now refer to a new era of ‘urban enclosure’, echoing the fencing and enclosing of Britain’s rural commons that took place during the 17th and 18th centuries. “As the austerity cuts hit non-statutory services such as parks harder and harder, London boroughs have been left stuck between a rock and a hard place,” said Tony Leach, chief executive of the charity Parks for London. ...

....“I would find it surprising if anybody else doing a costs review of the energy sector comes to a fundamentally different argument [to the Arup report],” he said. Leo Murray, of climate change charity 10:10, said: “It looks increasingly absurd that the Conservatives have effectively banned Britain’s cheapest source of new power. ...

....In 2014, the Israeli company was targeted by pro-Palestinian activists for operating a factory in the West Bank. The row led Scarlett Johansson to quit her ambassador role with Oxfam after the charity criticised her for appearing in a SodaStream commercial. ...

....When Charlotte and Nick Baker were planning their wedding in Cumbria last month, they wanted a highly personal celebration that reflected their deeply held principles about minimising waste. Unusually, that included asking a food waste charity to feed their 135 guests a three-course meal created entirely from food that would otherwise have been thrown away. ...

....Rivals Tesco and Superdrug halved the price of the emergency contraceptive following a campaign from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), a leading provider of abortion care. The charity had written to retailers asking them to consider offering a more affordable product, after it was revealed that British women are forced to pay up to five times more than their European peers for the contraceptive. ...

....The deal brings together BAT’s Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges cigarettes with Reynolds’ Pall Mall, Newport and Camel. But Deborah Arnott, chief executive of UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), was worried what the creation of an even bigger business would mean for the growing tobacco epidemic in poorer countries. ...

....Age UK was even more critical of the plans, saying the government was “picking the pockets of everyone in their late 40s and younger, despite there being no objective case in Age UK’s view to support it at this point in time”. The charity for older people also pointed out that the announcement came just days after Sir Michael Marmot, a former government adviser, warned that the trend towards longer lives was “pretty close to having ground to a halt” since 2010 after rising constantly since the second world war. ...

.... It is expected to last at least two-and-a-half times longer than paper £10 notes – about five years in total. The new tactile feature is a series of raised dots in the top left-hand corner, developed in conjunction with the RNIB, the charity that supports people with sight loss. ...

....However, recent research conducted by his firm found that average deposits climbed to £6,000 in the last year, with increases in some regions of more than 30%. Anne Baxendale of housing charity Shelter said: “While prices may be slowing in London, the idea of owning a home of your own is still just a fantasy for most people. ...

....The consumer group said Ofgem, which regulates the networks and sets limits on how much profit they can make, had allowed the firms to overinflate their projected costs of building pipes and wires. The energy regulator had also overestimated the business risks faced by the companies, and did not foresee an unprecedented period of low interest rates and bond returns, the charity said in a report published on Wednesday. ...

.... The global water footprint of 1kg of cotton (a shirt and pair of jeans) is between 10,000 – 20,000 litres, for example, depending on where the cotton was grown. Trewin Restorick, chief executive of the Hubbub environmental charity, commented: “It is encouraging that the amount of clothing being landfilled is decreasing, but research suggests this may be because people are hoarding more at home. ...

....4bn last year, has previously been criticised for exacerbating the housing crisis in Menlo Park by offering its staff a $10,000 bonus to move closer to its head office. John Liotti, chief executive of Able Works, a charity representing key workers, said at the time of previous iniative in 2015: “A lot of local families are going to get hurt. ...

.... A report issued this week revealed that the number of co-operative pubs open for business has now reached 50 and there are 90 groups actively exploring setting one up. The report from Plunkett Foundation, a charity that supports community-owned businesses, said these locally owned and run enterprises “are prospering where private enterprise has failed”. ...

.... The company said it was running a pilot with its tea products – but those opposing the change fear it will be extended to other products, including bananas and coffee. Anne Lindsay, a private-sector analyst from Cafod, the Catholic charity, said to the board: “I am concerned that after years of being an extremely valuable champion of Fairtrade, Sainsbury’s is starting in a direction that could undermine Fairtrade and lead to a plethora of different standards by different companies and confusion for consumers. ...

....”. The dependence on EU recruitment because of a lack of homegrown nurses could result in real difficulties, says Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation charity. ...

....Citizens Advice has already suggested that two million extra households which receive the Warm Homes Discount should get the same protection, including some pensioners and families with young children. The charity has assisted householders such as Shabnam Ali, who is set to save hundreds of pounds a year after she was helped to switch from her standard variable tariff. ...

....8m) for the education emergency, of which only a small fraction has been provided. As the charity notes, there has been quite a contrast between the response of the Ugandan government and that of the rest of the world. ...